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Down to a poor fourth place went Fuller Warren, former governor (1949-53), who had proclaimed: "If race-mixing comes to Florida, there will result from it a mulatto race." Up to a poor second went White Supremacist Sumter Lowry, retired National Guardsman and popeyed patriot, who highlighted his first campaign by displaying a blown-up picture of his eight-year-old daughter: "Now what kind of a man would I be if I didn't fight for a little girl like that...
...Florida Gulf Life Insurance Co. (which does about $6,000,000 a year in business from Negroes) was threatened by boycott after one of its directors, Sumter Lowry, filed as a race-baiting candidate for governor. Lowry was swiftly dropped from the Gulf directorate, and the threat eased. But C. Blythe Andrews, publisher of a Tampa Negro weekly, says: "If, after the first primary or later, we find General Lowry has been put back on the board, the insurance company will be in for trouble...
...Virginia, which presented an idea, not a plan, they have ridden off like headless horsemen into the woods of nullification-even though they call it interposition-and in the pursuit of every evasion of the decree that slick, if not smart, lawyers may devise. Nobody has proposed firing upon Sumter again, but the spirit of secession is there: secession from the moral conscience of the rest of the country and indeed of the world that is giving men of color -who far outnumber us of the white race-their civil rights, their right to be free and to share fully...
Thank God for your two statements: "The path of interposition leads in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts" and "No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil War II . . ." Perhaps, closer and closer draws the second Fort Sumter and the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. As for myself, a Southerner of 33, my reserve officer's uniform will always be olive drab, and never grey...
...little envious. Nor was the phobia confined to the self-appointed guardians of the liberal tradition. At the height of McCarthy's influence in 1954, articulate members of both parties seemed convinced that the Republic had not been in greater danger since the colors came down at Fort Sumter...